BenVimes

"A revolting bit of casuistry," as Christopher Hitchens put it. The problem this justification is that homosexuality is what people are and not what they do, and hating someone's inherent and immutable trait is the same as hating the person themselves.

I find it much more enjoyable than jogging. Also, easier on my leg joints.

A cursory search says about 900 officers above the rank of Colonel (aka general/flag officers). There are about 1.3M active duty and 800k reserve personnel in the US armed forces, meaning about 2300:1 ratio of troops to GO/FO.

My country, Canada, has about 130 senior officers, and about 87,000 total members, for a ratio of 670:1.

The UK has about 475 senior officers, and about 172,000 total members, for a ratio of 362:1.

(All numbers are subject to human error on my part. The UK senior officer numbers in particular I'm not 100% on as I literally just counted the names on Wikipedia)

I didn't feel like doing research beyond that, but while the USA does have a lot of military brass, they also have a lot of people in their military, and the ratio isn't as top-heavy as other militaries.

EDIT: changed the wording in the first paragraph to line up better.

It's a personal thing, but the smell of cumin kills my appetite. I had a bad experience with it once and I can't shake the association between the smell and the experience.

Interesting that you were still using StoCard. Some months ago the app broke for me and directed me to download Klarna. My info had been migrated over and everything.

I promptly found a new loyalty card app (SuperCards) once I saw the microloans and other unnecessary garbage in Klarna.

Did Startropics have an ad like that? A quick search didn't turn anything up.

I'm sure there's a joke to be made here about the O-Train, but I'm not clever enough to be the one to make it.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer company.

Anecdotally, Klarna is the company that bought StoCard, an app for scanning and storing loyalty cards, and replaced it with their own app. I personally liked StoCard and found the microloan bloat of Klarna to be unbearable.

I realize that's not as serious a charge as the predatory microloans themselves, but it does give me some measure of personal satisfaction to read about their self-inflicted wounds.

The original GDQ event took place starting 1 January 2010, and was called Classic Games Done Quick. Its capstone game was Final Fantasy VI, which was released on 11 October 1994 in North America. So FFVI was a little over 13 years old when CGDQ happened.

SGDQ2025 took place starting 6 July of this year. That means GDQ events have been going on for 15.5 years, and the event is older than some of the "classic" games from CGDQ were at the time of that original event.

If SGDQ2025 had wanted to use a Final Fantasy game as its capstone, the game of comparable age as FFVI was during CGDQ would have been FFXIII-2, which released on 31 January 2012 in North America.

I don't know how to feel about it being an RTS, as I'm pretty bad at those.

I guess a straight slow-time game might end up too similar to the board game, though.

Bruce Fanjoy winning Carleton was one of the funniest things to happen in the last election.

I'm not expecting Polievre to lose this race too, despite the effort put in by some of his opponents. This is one of those "blue fence post" ridings after all. But if he only gets 45% of the vote instead of 75%, I'll still get a chuckle.

This is one of my favourite shitposts. Growing up with things like The Donut Man and Psalty the Singing Songbook makes this almost feel real, like it was some half-forgotten fever dream.